82 — Light-painting portraits — Interview with Patrick Rochon

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #82 dis­cusses paint­ing with light AKA light paint­ing with mas­ter light painterPatrick Rochon. In a nut­shell, light paint­ing is (usu­ally) the art of using portable lights like flash­lights to ‘paint’ a sub­ject in a dark envi­ron­ment while the shut­ter stays open on a tri­pod dur­ing a long expo­sure. In this pod­cast Patrick describes and shares some of the tips and tricks he uses to cre­ate his amaz­ing light painted por­traits. The major­ity of Patrick’s body of work, like the image below is non-digital, was shot on film, and has not been Photoshopped.

Thanks toJack Label who posted a blog com­ment about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board.

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Dig­i­tal brings the cost of tak­ing a mas­sive amount of shots into the con­sumer realm. As a pro­fes­sional it takes the place of polaroid test shots, and indeed allows full res­o­lu­tion cap­ture let­ting you cap­ture “test” shots along the way. Instant feedback.

I lis­tened to this fas­ci­nat­ing pod­cast in my car on the morn­ing com­mute. It wasn’t until I looked through my RSS reader that the beauty and unique­ness of Patrick’s work was appar­ent. Thanks for con­nect­ing the rest of us with his work, Marco.